Propaganda in Russian Media Coverage of the War in Ukraine: Emotion vs. Reason

Author(s):
Golubev, Vadim
Editor(s):
Boogaart, Ronny; Garssen, Bart; Jansen, Henrike; Van Leeuwen, Maarten; Pilgram, Roosmaryn; Reuneker, Alex
Published
2024
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Generally accepted definitions of propaganda feature a prominent role that emotional appeal plays in making communication propagandistic. This paper is an attempt to explain how Russian propaganda works, and why it is so effective, by looking at media content through the prism of interaction between emotion and reason in Russian media discourse. A logico-pragma-stylistic analysis is applied to the coverage of the Ukraine war by the influential Russian daily Izvestiia.

emotionemotional appeallogico-pragma-stylistic analysismedia discoursepropagandarational appealreasonRussian mediaspeech actsUkraine war
Date issued
2024
Language
English
Is part of
Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2024), p. 286-296
hdl
1887/4107791

Conference

Meeting name
10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
Meeting location
Leiden, The Netherlands
Meeting date
2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07